Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam ‘In A Black Out’
On the back of his solo album Black Hours and collaborations with his former The Walkmen bandmate Paul Maroon, Hamilton Leithauser teams up with former Vampire Weekend multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij. This is the first of two tracks this episode taken from the album I Had A Dream That You Were Mine (out now).
[Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam]

Honeyblood ‘Sea Hearts’
From the Scottish noisepop duo’s forthcoming second album Babes Never Die, their first since Cat Myers replaced Shona McVicar (November 4, FatCat).
[Honeyblood]

Kings of Leon ‘Waste A Moment’
Love ‘em or hate them, it can’t be denied that Kings of Leon struggled to follow up their ubiquitous 2008 album Only By the Night. Come Around Sundown and Mechanical Bull seemed like the work of a band who had run out of steam. These guys really need to come back with a great album, and this track is a great start. From the album Walls (14, October).
[Kings of Leon]

The Radio Dept. ‘Swedish Guns’
Another track from Running Out of Love, the first album in five years for the Swedish dreampop band (Labrador, October21)
[The Radio Dept.]

Warpaint ‘White Out’
One of my favourite artists of recent years, the LA band served up a massive disappointment with the first track from new album Heads Up, ‘New Song’. It sounded like a bad remix of a good song. Thankfully, it is, by several orders of magnitude, the worst song on the album. This is the opening track and plays to all the band’s strengths: sinuous bass line, skittering drum beats, yearning vocals and a post punk sensibility to the angular guitars and keyboards.
[Warpaint]

Grandaddy ‘Way We Won’t’
First new material in 10 years from Modesto’s finest. A new album is due next year on Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records label. This is classic stuff and stronger than anything on 2006’s Just Like The Fambly Cat.
[Grandaddy]

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions Feat. Kurt Vile ‘Let Me Get There’
The dreampop queen meets the slacker king for a marriage made in heaven, the vocals complement each other and KV’s guitar sounds like a stoned Television covering the intro to ‘Band on the Run’.
[Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions]

Beck ‘Wow’
Beck goes old school for the first track from his forthcoming album (tentatively due out in October).
[Beck]

Dirty Projectors ‘Keep Your Name’
First track in a while from David Longstreth (here accompanied by Mauro Refosco and Tyondai Braxton). A break-up ballad (presumed to be about former longterm partner and erstwhile bandmember Amber Coffman) where he goes from confusion to a mea culpa to a cutting slight of the other’s pursuit of fame over art.
[Dirty Projectors]

Jordan Rakei ‘Midnight Mischief [Tom Misch Remix]’
Remix of the lead track from the London-based Kiwi’s debut album Cloak (out now), this take’s the r n’ b number and makes it more electronic and throws in a nice chill guitar solo.
[Jordan Rakei]

Hi-Tec Emotions ‘Look Around’
Like ITP faves Stina Tester and Cinta Masters, Melbourne’s Hi-Tec Emotions are part of the Listen Records family. A label set up to promote and support Australian female and LGBTQIA artists.
[Hi-Tec Emotions]

The Holiday Crowd ‘Anything Anything’
Old school indie pop with hints of the Go-Betweens and C86 with a lovely piece of jangle pop from their forthcoming, self-titled second album (Shelflife, October 21).
[The Holiday Crowd]

Wolf People ‘Ninth Night’
It’s been a great year for heavy space rock (Besnard Lakes, Black Mountain, Heron Oblivion). This is from the UK band’s forthcoming RUINS album (November 11, Jagjaguwar).
[Wolf People]

Okkervil River ‘Frontman in Heaven’
Another great track from Away (out now, Jagjaguwar).
[Okkervil River]

Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam ‘The Morning Stars’
Second track this episode taken from the album ‘I Had A Dream That You Were Mine’ (out now).
[Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam]

The Radio Dept. ‘Sloboda Narodu’
Five years on from Clinging to a Scheme, the Swedish dreampop band return with their fourth album Running Out of Love (Labrador, October 21).
[The Radio Dept.]

Cherry Glazerr ‘Told You I’d Be With The Guys’
After hitting a high with their ‘Had 10 Dollaz’ 7” (Suicide Squeeze) Cherry Glazerr return, with the guitars ramped up, a new line up and now signed to Secretly Canadian.
[Cherry Glazerr]

Gold Class ‘Kids on Fire’
Melbourne post-punkers (and one of the best live bands around at the moment) with a new track, their first since their split single with Mere Women.
[Gold Class]

Local Natives ‘Coins’
After an amazing debut and an underwhelming follow up, Local Natives return with new album Sunlit Youth. Not as joyously infectious as Gorilla Manor, but more focussed and with stronger hooks than Hummingbird.
[Local Natives]

Sat Nite Duets ‘Attached to the Lamp’Another track from the Milwaukee indie rock band’s debut album Air Guitar (September 16). This one appears to be ruminating on the inequities of being in band, traveling across the country to “play to the soundman and the other band“. Features the line “We’ve got Bob and the Band/ we’ve got Spooky and Dan/ and we’ve got ourselves a motherfuckin’ rock & roll band”.
[Sat Nite Duets]

Look Park ‘Breezy’
Classic pop that lives up to its title from former-Fountains-of-Wayne-frontman Chris Collingwood’s new band.
[Look Park]

Savoy Motel ‘Sorry People’
“A song based on the late Jay Reatard’s skewed philosophy of never apologizing for anything, even though I remember him telling me he was sorry about countless crazy things in the past.” From the Nashville skewed garage pop band’s forthcoming debut album (What’s Your Rupture?, October 21).
[Savoy Motel]

Wilco ‘If I Ever Was A Child’
Stripped down and understated track from the band’s stripped down and understated new album Schmilco.
[Wilco]

Mild High Club ‘Homage’
Psych pop from the LA band’s new album Skiptracing (out now, Stones Throw).
[Mild High Club]

The Parrots ‘Letas Do It Again’
Madrid garage band with a track from their album Los Niños Sin Miedo (out now, Heavenly)
[The Parrots]

Katy Goodman and Greta Morgan ‘Sex Beat’
Buddies Goodman (La Sera/Vivian Girls) and Morgan (The Hush Sound / Springtime Carnivore) previously recorded one track together as Books of Love back in 2013 (ITP #33). Now they have got back together under their own names to record a collection of punk and new wave covers in a dreampop style (Take It, It’s Yours, out now). It doesn’t always work, but when it does as on this Gun Club classic (and on covers of The Replacements, Bad Brains, Blondie, The Wipers and Misfits) it’s a treat.
[Katy Goodman and Greta Morgan]

The Wedding Present ‘Marblehead’
Dream-like number from the band’s Going, Going Gone album (which features more typically Weddoes-like tunes, as well).
[The Wedding Present]

Okkervil River ‘Comes Indiana Through the Smoke’
From the new Okkervil River album Away (out now, ATO) This song is about the death of Will Sheff’s grandfather, Sheff imagines the battleship Indiana (that his grandfather served on during World War II) returning to take him away.
[Okkervil River]

Bueno ‘Eye On The Cards’
Staten Island band channel post punk and 70s art rock on this track from their forthcoming album Illuminate Your Room (August 19 Babe City / Exploding In Sound).
[Bueno]

Warehouse ‘Reservoir’
Atlanta band with a track from their forthcoming second album Super Low (Bayonet Records, September 30).
[Warehouse]

Ryley Walker ‘The Roundabout’
Saw Ryley Walker twice when he was over in Australia back in January. Don’t think he played anything from Primrose Green, but he did play a bunch of unreleased stuff which sounded great. This track in particular stood out, so glad it’s going to be on the new record Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (August 19, Dead Oceans).
[Ryley Walker]

Johnny Foreigner ‘Cliffjumper’
Self-aware Birmingham band that “blew [our] chance of being famous 8 years ago” prove they’ve still got it on new album Mono No Aware (out now, Alcopop).
[Johnny Foreigner]

Minor Victories ‘Cogs’
Indie rock supergroup featuring Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) and Justin Lockey (Editors) really could go either way, but their debut album plays to all their strengths and is a joy. This track features Goswell on vocals.
[Minor Victories]

Big Deal ‘Saccharine’
Melodic and melancholy noise pop from the Anglo-American band’s third album Say Yes (out now), their first for FatCat since leaving Mute.
[Big Deal]

Fawnn ‘Shadow Love‘
Ferndale, Michigan melodic indie band whose members have done time in a variety of Great Lakes area luminaries.
[Fawnn]

Band of Horses ‘Throw My Mess’
Band of Horses latest album Why Are You OK seems to explore the tensions between domesticity and rock and roll. Some people appear to think this doesn’t make for good art. Some people can go fuck themselves.
[Band of Horses]

Mourn ‘Evil Dead’
The young Barcelona post-punk influenced band follow up last year’s impressive debut with a new album HA, HA, HE. (out now, Captured Tracks).
[Mourn]

Amber Arcades ‘Perpetuum Mobile’
Dutch musician Annelotte de Graff makes indiepop in the classic style. The cheao pre-set bossa nova rhythm, twanging guitars, chromatic shifts on the keyboards and de Graff’s breathy vocals combine to evoke the kind of Les Bicyclettes de Belsize 1960s that those early Saint Etienne records were so in love with. No surprise then, that her debut album Fading Lines (out now) has been released by Heavenly.
[Amber Arcades]

Wye Oak ‘If You Should See’
The aptly titled Tween is a collection of outtakes from the Baltimore duo’s work between their guitar-period high-water mark Civilian and the more electronic-focussed Shriek. This
[Wye Oak]

Casket Girls ‘Beyond A Shadow’
Ryan Graveface and the Greene sisters return with more electronic dreampop, following up the understated but undeniable charms of 2014’s True Love Kills The Fairytale. This is taken from their third album The Night Machines (out now, Graveface).
[Casket Girls]